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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – As part of a plan to cut down the more than 96,000 refugees and migrants in Greece, most seeking asylum after the European Union closed its borders to them, Greece released a list of 12 countries considered safe for them for return.
Most of those seeking sanctuary in Greece come from the Mideast and Asia, especially Afghanistan and fleeing Syria’s civil war and have priority for asylum, over economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and other regions.
The refugees and migrants had come to Greece from Turkey, which allows human traffickers to operate during an essentially-suspended 2016 swap deal with the EU, with other countries reneging on promises to help take some of the overload.
The list of countries considered safe for migrants in Greece who could then be deported is comprised of Ghana, Senegal, Togo, Gambia, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Albania, Georgia, Ukraine, India and Armenia, for those whose asylum applications are rejected.
That is under a joint decision signed by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis, based on article 87 of the new 2019 law on applying for asylum which states that a country can be judged safe if an applicant hasn’t cited “serious reasons why the country is not a safe country of origin for the applicant.”
The new measure also includes plans to speed asylum applications as many have waited two years or more, stuck in refugee and detention centers on islands and the mainland, as the New Democracy government also wants Turkey to take back 20,000 although only about some 2000 have been deported since the EU deal was signed.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.